Chapter 106: The City of the Head King

In the red sand, a small black creature stretched out its eight legs and struggled forward.

  The wind and sand that permeate the area are enough to erode the hard rocks. Along the way, You Huan did not see any life.

  But although the Lightning is small, it has everything and is well configured.

  The spider's body is covered with a thin shell made of similar material to mecha.

  These sandstorms are no problem at all.

  After walking in the desert for several days, today he finally saw hope of breaking through the sandstorm.

  The detector sent back information about the presence of multiple life forms nearby.

  You Huan moved his spider legs flexibly, quietly dodged to the side, and used the cover of wind and sand to bypass these life forms.

  After walking a few dozen meters, the wind and sand ahead suddenly weakened.

  It was like the fog dissipating to reveal a brilliant spectacle. When the red dust disappeared, an extremely magnificent scene appeared before his eyes.

  This is a huge head with a dark glow!

  A skeleton made of tar constitutes its two hundred meter tall body.

  The cheeks of the head were deeply sunken, and the eyeballs were like deep holes. On the face without a nose bridge, the mouth was opened up and down to an extremely tearful degree.

  The dark mouth turned into a door, and the fleshy tongue with a strange gray color that spread out from the depths turned into a staircase.

  Skinny black arms stretched out from behind the head, firmly grasping the edge of the head and connecting the head to the long torso at the back.

  The silent screaming head serves as the city gate.

  It is like a worm-shaped, skinny body made up of ribs and charred flesh, serving as the backbone of the city.

  This is a city!

  There are no pioneer platforms above the city.

  The blazing sun hung high in the sky, emitting a red glow behind it without any obstruction.

  This caused its body to glow red, as if its black flesh and blood were steaming and boiling, and as if it was about to come alive.

  Looking at this shocking scene, You Huan stayed there silently for a second.

  On the other side, in the Blue Star, he stood up slightly and searched for Newton's thoughts through the monster brain that existed in the human world.

  The Pioneers seemed to want to turn Newton, a biological genius, into a nail planted on the Blue Planet, and threw a lot of fragmentary information from the Pioneer world into his brain.

  One of the messages can be interpreted as follows:

  "The Royal City, the greatest of the pioneers, the eternal center of the pioneers, the weapon of the giants!"

  The biological city made up of "giants" seen through the eyes of the Lightning is the "royal city" of the pioneers!

  It seems to be the instinct of the monsters.

  Even though he had already broken away from the monster's consciousness network, You Huan still felt slightly excited.

  The spider took a step forward, and walked towards the gate of the royal city amidst the rustling sounds.

  However, before they reached the door, several pioneers appeared.

  The spider quickly hid behind a rock.

  These pioneers are tall, and the exoskeletons on their heads are very large, like crowns.

  This shows their extraordinary status.

  They stood on the gate of the royal city, which was the giant's tongue, and spoke in a shrill voice.

  You Huan did not understand the language of the Pioneers. When the Pioneers wanted to give orders to the monsters, they communicated directly through consciousness.

  The consciousness wave communicator doesn't work even though they are two planets apart.

  Fortunately, he knew someone who understood the Pioneer language.

  Because of the information coming in from the pioneers, Newton understood bits and pieces of the pioneer language.

  The information in the tool man Newton's brain was borrowed by him again.

  Using Newton's brain directly as a language processor, he could barely understand what the pioneers were saying.

  "It's... terrible outside. Let's go back."

  "No rush, just watch more."

  "It's getting worse."

  "...Energy...is exhausted, but the plans of the 'Popes' have not yet been aborted."

  "What...?"

  "We are only responsible for…part of it and can only see the lower level institutions."

  "…absorbing the energy of the world."

  "…A new world is urgently needed."  

  "The 'Pope' has their plans...slowed down, there is no way."

  It sounds like they initially discuss how conditions outside are getting harsher, and suggest this is because the planet's energy source is about to run out or has already run out.

  Under such dire circumstances, the pioneers, whom they respectfully called "Popes", were still carrying out a certain plan.

  They are only responsible for a small part of this plan, and can only see that this plan will drain the world's energy and thus accelerate the world's decline.

  It seems that the pioneers under the "Pope" are still quite anxious and hope to colonize the Blue Planet as soon as possible to obtain more energy.

  But the plans of the "Popes" made their invasion proceed slowly.

  After transforming the fragmented words into human language, You Huan heard a new voice appear:

  "Your Excellency the Archbishops! ...There is a new potential for creation..."

  A pioneer with a smaller crown appeared at the gate of the royal city, bowed his head respectfully to keep his height lower than those pioneers, and said.

  The size of the crown of this newly emerged pioneer was similar to that of the bishop-level pioneer that You Huan had seen before.

  Combined with the information learned when the baby was born.

  The pioneer world is divided into at least five levels: ordinary, envoy, bishop, archbishop and pope.

  The pioneers of the lower class always treated the pioneers of the higher class with great respect.

  After hearing what the bishop pioneer said, the archbishop pioneers looked at each other, ended the topic, and turned to go into the royal city.

  No more pioneers left the city.

  But outside the city, there were always pioneers patrolling.

  These pioneers are fully armed, and the flesh-like armor they wear makes them much more muscular than ordinary pioneers.

  They held thick, long-barreled weapons with a diameter of one meter.

  Currently a small spider detector, You Huan does not want to try the power of their weapons.

  He tried hard to release the powerful mental power transmitted from the Tail-Standing Rat, and with the help of the original hiding function in the detector, he hid as much as possible.

  Spreading out his slender spider legs, he slowly moved to the foot of the royal city.

  Look at this giant city towering into the sky, and its black and red surface rich in biological activity.

  If you think about it, it actually looks like a large, odd-looking Snickers bar.

  He wondered if this thing was edible...

  Since it is only a level 5 monster created by the pioneer, it can provide high-level evolution points.

  Then this kind of more massive and magnificent semi-organic organism might yield even more impressive results.

  With this expectation, the spider rubbed its two front legs together.

  Some gray substance was secreted from the spider's legs and was rolled into a ball by him.

  This is a built-in function of the Lightning, which can secrete special ingredients to create micro signal devices.

  He dug a small hole at the foot of the royal city using his own excavator.

  Then bury this circular signal device.

  If there is no matching positioning device to send a signal, this little thing will not work and will not send out any signal.

  So it should be fairly hidden, right?

  But just in case, he followed the same method and buried a large number of signal devices around the royal city.

  In this way, when he actually arrives at the pioneer mother planet, he can quickly locate here.

  Such a huge city, a city of such high status, must be hiding the secrets of pioneer civilization.

  It is also a good place to "capture the leader first".

  The Lightning took one last look at the royal city, took a picture of it through the camera, and then turned and left.

  As for entering the royal city?

  In this pioneer's base camp, identity checks must be extremely strict.

  Instead of thinking about how to sneak in, it is better to take a look at another life-rich signal point shown in the detection device.

  　According to the original setting of the movie, the pioneers should have only three classes, but I added two more because it was too few. The movie setting also seems to say that because the environment of the mother planet is bad, the pioneers hide in the rocks and so on. A civilization that has the ability to create monsters and wormholes should not be so miserable even if the environment is bad, so I also changed this part. You can just treat the pioneers as a brand new alien civilization. Some of the styles refer to HR Giger, but the big head of Giger style is left for the later Alien world.

  (End of this chapter)